His use of hyperbole (comparing coal to death factories [run by the Nazi's]) is over the top. But for the uneducated, environmentalists and those politicans who believe in top-down control of our lives he makes a compelling case. Too bad [for him] more and more scientists are re-examining the basis for this facts and are drawing different conclusions or at least saying lets look harder at the science and not turn our lifestyle upside down based on what might be faulty or incomplete research.

This is the source article mentioned in an earlier FR thread posted here:

The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades. ...

Dear Jimmy, don't worry about it. Your fellow scientists over at the History Channel say a huge asteroid will hit sooner or later while monstrous volcanoes are erupting. But the mile high surf will be up to inundate the coastal cities burning from gamma radiation so not a big deal, Jimbo.

Finally those sickly survivors of the world wide pandemic will be toasted off by the sun expanding and wiping the slate of earth clean leaving it a blackened lump of coal like rock. Kinda of gives a warm feeling, doesn't it?

And you were worried about a little old power plant!

Bye and stay warm!

20 posted on 02/17/2009 7:56:47 AM PST by count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)

Coal is the only significant source of power generation native to the UK. We still have a bucketload of the stuff underground and the only reason we don’t still mine the stuff on any real scale any more is because Thatcher, to her eternal shame, completely shafted the industry back in the 1980s instead of supporting it. Which is why we are now mostly dependent on foreign sources of energy when before we were net energy exporters in a big way....

I just retired after 31 years in a coal fired power plant. the most deadly thing there is the stress caused by the rotating shifts.

Few make it to retirement age. Most find a “medical” reason to quit, (bad knees, bad back, stroke, We have allowed several very incompetent persons to use “medical” as an excuse to get them out of the company, One died from appendicitis, heart attacks, alcoholism. Only ONE got a disease (Mesothelioma, Asbestos). One from Louisiana, cancer capitol of the world, died of cancer. He smoked like a chimney.

The cooling lake is loaded with fish, Bald eagles are all over the place in winter, and I have seen more deer here than anywhere I have ever lived. There were were few deer thirty years ago.

The worst thing about that coal fired plant is that we had a couple of JERKS promoted to supervisors .

Hansen is full of it.

28 posted on 02/17/2009 8:39:08 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
(14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)